My last midterm will be taking place today from 4:10 to 5:25. This officially marks the countdown to the end to the semester. This certainly have been an interesting semester. First of all I finally got my acts together and took a class in Japanese. Although with my Non-Tech elective credits filled by IB-Mandarin, and the billion class requirements for FE major, i probably cannot afford another 5 credits in Japanese. But something tells me as long as I love watching anime, my study of Japanese is not ending here.
The most interesting portion of this semester's got to be my long habit of getting lower marks in easier classes. Between the three Math classes I'm taking this semester (Linear Algebra, Calc III and Probability ) Calc III is no doubt the easiest course being that it is a pre-requirement for the other two.Yet even without this pre-requirement, my performance in the other two classes have been acceptable; However calc III.. being my easiest class this semester by far, is definitely dragging down my grades.
Extracurricular wise, I'm very proud of Table Tennis team's achievement this semesters, especially proud of my own improvement. This is my first college level tournament and so far I've maintained a no-lose streak out of 4 games (2 singles 2 doubles). The likelihood of this result being maintained next semester is non-zero but infinitesimally small though. With the women team's captain graduating this semester, it'll entirely be up to the 4 sub 2000 (stiga ratings) member to at least obtain second place in the upcoming tournament next semester. Hopefully I'll manage to get some training in this winter.
Speaking of, Turns out that most people that are here in columbia from Vancouver ended up booking the same flight, yet again. 21st night Cathay Pacific $400 special, who could pass up on that =p.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Sunday, November 11, 2007
MicroSoft puzzle Challenge Blunders
きのう MicroSoft puzzle Challenge をしました。この event はとてもあのしいです、わたしの ｔeam はあまじょずじゃありません。
http://www.collegepuzzlechallenge.com/Default.aspx
Microsoft Puzzle Challenge, also known as College Puzzle Challenge hosted by Microsoft is held in colleges all around US (with the exception of University of Toronto). On this one Saturday, students gather to solve interesting (and obscure) puzzles for 12 hours.
Being our first time, my team did not perform as well as other teams, nevertheless everyone had fun. Here are some clippets from the event.
10:00 am, 2 hour prior to the event. myself, being the captain of the team, calls Vanck to ensure that we have the proper equipments for the event (namingly scissor, colorpencil..etc)
11:30 am, at check-in
Vanck: hey viv, did you bring the scissors?
11:45am, during opening presentation, a cup of strategically placed orange juice by my other teammate:Eric, managed to find its way onto my pants. eliminating me from the auditorium.
12:15am, after a brief studder with the juice accident I returned to our designated room (Computer Science Lounge) only to realize that it is now the weekend and I did not have the proper security clearance to enter the computer science building.
12:25am, while waiting for my teammates to open up the CS building doors, I checked the univesial standing for the competition only to find that serveral MIT teams managed to solve 5-6 puzzles within the first 20 minutes.
1:00 am, finally settled down in our lounge and began to play with the scrabble puzzle.
Vanck: (playing with the crossword puzzle) gee I wonder why to solve this puzzle you only need the first 10 clues.
Eric & I: vanck, you are reading the wrong set of numbers!
2:00 am, the last member of our team managed to arrive on scene. Just in time to point out the various copying mistakes that Vanck was making and solve the puzzle. First answer sumbitted
2:30 am, someone finally decided to take a break and pick up our lunch.
5:00pm, with the Runaround puzzle solved, our team entered a roll of answer submition 4 puzzles were solved within the hour. realilzing that the colorful blocks on each page are going to be important, I began to cut them out.
5:15pm,
Vanck: Hey guys, I think those colorful blocks that appear on every page is the meta puzzle!
Me: that would be precisely why they are all cutted out.
10:00pm after a 4 hour deadlock with only one answer solved, we managed to answer 4 more questions during this hour.
11:40pm, last minute problem solving began
11:55pm, after a long day of struggle, Vanck finally was able to solve his first puzzle entirely by himself.
12:00am, closing event.
http://www.collegepuzzlechallenge.com/Default.aspx
Microsoft Puzzle Challenge, also known as College Puzzle Challenge hosted by Microsoft is held in colleges all around US (with the exception of University of Toronto). On this one Saturday, students gather to solve interesting (and obscure) puzzles for 12 hours.
Being our first time, my team did not perform as well as other teams, nevertheless everyone had fun. Here are some clippets from the event.
10:00 am, 2 hour prior to the event. myself, being the captain of the team, calls Vanck to ensure that we have the proper equipments for the event (namingly scissor, colorpencil..etc)
11:30 am, at check-in
Vanck: hey viv, did you bring the scissors?
11:45am, during opening presentation, a cup of strategically placed orange juice by my other teammate:Eric, managed to find its way onto my pants. eliminating me from the auditorium.
12:15am, after a brief studder with the juice accident I returned to our designated room (Computer Science Lounge) only to realize that it is now the weekend and I did not have the proper security clearance to enter the computer science building.
12:25am, while waiting for my teammates to open up the CS building doors, I checked the univesial standing for the competition only to find that serveral MIT teams managed to solve 5-6 puzzles within the first 20 minutes.
1:00 am, finally settled down in our lounge and began to play with the scrabble puzzle.
Vanck: (playing with the crossword puzzle) gee I wonder why to solve this puzzle you only need the first 10 clues.
Eric & I: vanck, you are reading the wrong set of numbers!
2:00 am, the last member of our team managed to arrive on scene. Just in time to point out the various copying mistakes that Vanck was making and solve the puzzle. First answer sumbitted
2:30 am, someone finally decided to take a break and pick up our lunch.
5:00pm, with the Runaround puzzle solved, our team entered a roll of answer submition 4 puzzles were solved within the hour. realilzing that the colorful blocks on each page are going to be important, I began to cut them out.
5:15pm,
Vanck: Hey guys, I think those colorful blocks that appear on every page is the meta puzzle!
Me: that would be precisely why they are all cutted out.
10:00pm after a 4 hour deadlock with only one answer solved, we managed to answer 4 more questions during this hour.
11:40pm, last minute problem solving began
11:55pm, after a long day of struggle, Vanck finally was able to solve his first puzzle entirely by himself.
12:00am, closing event.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)